John Gurdon
Sir John Gurdon | |
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Sir John Gurdon in 2012 | |
| Born | John Bertrand Gurdon 2 October 1933 Dippenhall, Surrey, England |
| Citizenship | British |
| Alma mater | Eton College Christ Church, Oxford (MA, DPhil) |
| Known for | Nuclear transfer, cloning |
| Awards | Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (1977) William Bate Hardy Prize (1984) Royal Medal (1985) International Prize for Biology (1987) Wolf Prize in Medicine (1989) Edwin Grant Conklin Medal (2001) Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award (2009) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biology and Developmental Biology |
| Institutions | University of Oxford MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology University of Cambridge California Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Nuclear transplantation in Xenopus (1960) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michail Fischberg |
| Doctoral students | Douglas A. Melton Edward M. De Robertis |
| Website | www |
Sir John Bertrand Gurdon FRS (born 2 October 1933) is a British developmental biologist, best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and cloning.
Awarded the Lasker Award in 2009, in 2012, he and Shinya Yamanaka were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells.